Relief Checking Technician

What if your next role helped keep our pharmacies moving?

As a Relief Checking Technician, you'll play a vital role in making sure our patients receive their medicines safely and accurately, while providing flexible support across our pharmacy network. Using your pharmacy knowledge, experience and professional judgement, you'll carry out final accuracy checks on dispensed prescriptions, helping ensure every detail is right before medicines reach the patient.

Working across different pharmacy locations, you'll bring your skills and expertise wherever they're needed, supporting colleagues and helping maintain a consistent, high-quality service. You'll review prescriptions, identify and resolve anomalies, check medicines against pharmacy and regulatory requirements, and work with colleagues and prescribers to address any concerns safely and efficiently.

It's a varied role where your adaptability and attention to detail really matter. You'll build relationships with different pharmacy teams, share your knowledge and help ensure patient safety remains at the heart of everything we do.

Where accuracy, flexibility and patient safety come together

• Carrying out thorough final accuracy checks to ensure prescriptions, medication, labelling, dosage and patient information are correct.

• Reviewing prescriptions to identify anomalies, incomplete information or potential concerns, working with colleagues and prescribers to resolve these appropriately.

• Supporting different pharmacy teams across our network, adapting to local needs while maintaining consistent standards of quality, safety and patient confidentiality.

• Using your pharmacy knowledge and professional judgement to support colleagues and promote the safe and effective use of prescribed medicines.

• Supporting stock management, quality checks and the wider running of our pharmacies, helping maintain a safe, organised and efficient service.

If you're a qualified Checking Technician who takes pride in getting every detail right, enjoys variety and is confident working across different teams and environments, this could be an opportunity to put your skills to great use. You'll help our pharmacies deliver safe, effective care and make a difference to patients and communities wherever you're needed.

Someone who bring accuracy and confidence wherever they're needed

This is a role where accuracy, professional judgement and a genuine commitment to patient safety go hand in hand.

You'll understand that every prescription you check matters. Whether you're carrying out final accuracy checks, identifying potential issues or working with colleagues and prescribers to resolve queries, you'll take pride in making sure patients receive their medication safely and accurately.

As a Relief Checking Technician, you'll be comfortable working across different pharmacy locations, building relationships with new colleagues and adapting to the needs of each branch. You'll bring confidence, knowledge and a flexible approach, helping pharmacy teams maintain high standards of service wherever support is needed.

We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• Excellent attention to detail, with a strong commitment to accuracy and patient safety.

• Good pharmacy knowledge and professional judgement, with the confidence to identify and resolve prescription anomalies.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with different pharmacy teams, patients and healthcare professionals.

• A professional and caring approach, with a clear understanding of confidentiality and the importance of protecting patient information.

• Good organisational skills, with the ability to adapt quickly, manage responsibilities and work effectively across different pharmacy environments.

• A proactive and flexible attitude, with a commitment to ongoing learning, development and maintaining professional standards.

To be considered for this role, it is essential that you already hold a GPhC-recognised Accuracy Checking Technician qualification and are registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

We're looking for someone who understands that being a Relief Checking Technician is about more than checking prescriptions. It's about bringing your knowledge and experience to different teams, providing dependable support and helping keep patients safe wherever you're working.

Benefits that help you grow

Alongside the opportunity to use your pharmacy expertise to make a genuine difference to patients and our local communities, you'll receive a benefits package that's just as rewarding:

• 30 days' annual leave (pro rata), including bank holidays.

• A pension scheme with up to 12% employer contributions.

• Generous colleague discounts across our family of businesses.

• An annual discretionary colleague bonus in recognition of your contribution.

We're also proud to be an Investors in People Platinum employer, recognising our commitment to helping colleagues learn, develop and build rewarding careers. Whether you're looking to continue developing your pharmacy expertise or take the next step in your career, we'll support you with ongoing training and opportunities to grow within Lincolnshire Co-op.

Ready to make every prescription count?

If you're passionate about accuracy, patient safety and delivering high standards of pharmacy care, and enjoy the variety of supporting different teams, we'd love to hear from you.

A full job description is available to download on this page, providing further information about the responsibilities, experience and skills required for the role.

From a single store in 1861 we have grown to be one of the most successful co-operatives in the UK. We’re proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from across our family of businesses. From Food Stores and Pharmacies to Post Offices and Support Services, we’re a growing society made up of over 220 outlets and nearly 3,000 colleagues.

We're owned by our members, the people of Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, and have been for more than 160 years! Communities are at the heart of everything we do and motivates us to deliver more than great customer service. We support them by sharing dividend with our members, investing in new and improved services, raising money for charity through our Community Champion scheme, supporting local schools and so much more! Find out more about us, our purpose and wonderful colleagues here.

We work together as a Society and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. If you need any adjustments, would like us to do anything differently during the interview or would like to get in touch with us about anything else, please contact our Recruitment team on (01522) 533316, or alternatively you can email [email protected].

We may choose to close our vacancies in the event that we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible.